Bard of Avon: Story of William Shakespeare - Softcover

Stanley, Diane; Venema, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0688162940 ISBN 13: 9780688162948

Publisher: William Morrow, 1998

Synopsis

Pub Date: 1998-08-27 Pages: 48 Language: English Publisher:. HarperCollins US William Shakespeare was the son of a glovemaker. a small-town boy with a grammar school education Yet he grew up to become the greatest English-speaking playwright in the world Bard of Avon:. The Story of William Shakespeare is both his story and that of a great art rediscovered in the modern world.Drama had been forgotten since the days of ancient Greece. but it reemerged in Elizabethan London with the building of the first modern theater Its impact can still be imagined today There were the theaters. open to the weather and featuring neither sets nor curtains. but equipped with dramatic special effects There were the companies of actors -... the leading men. the comedians . the boys who played womens roles - and the playwrights who gave them all lines to say.Best of all. there was William Shakesp...

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Review:

"This is a wonderful book." -- "School Library Journal" (starred review)"A remarkably rounded picrure of Shakespeare's life and rhe period in which he lived. A discerning, knowledgeable biography, rising far above rhe ordinary." -- "The Horn Book" (starred review)

About the Author:

Diane Stanley is the author and illustrator of beloved books for young readers, including The Silver Bowl, which received three starred reviews, was named a best book of the year by Kirkus Reviews and Book Links Lasting Connections, and was an ALA Booklist Editors' Choice; The Cup and the Crown; Saving Sky, winner of the Arab American Museum's Arab American Book Award and a Bank Street College of Education Best Book of the Year; Bella at Midnight, a School Library Journal Best Book of the Year and an ALA Booklist Editors' Choice; The Mysterious Case of the Allbright Academy; The Mysterious Matter of I. M. Fine; and A Time Apart. Well known as the author and illustrator of award-winning picture-book biographies, she is the recipient of the Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children and the Washington Post-Children's Book Guild Nonfiction Award for her body of work.

Ms. Stanley has also written and illustrated numerous picture books, including three creatively reimagined fairy tales: The Giant and the Beanstalk, Goldie and the Three Bears, and Rumpelstiltskin's Daughter. She lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. dianestanleybooks.com.

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0688162940
• ISBN 13: 9780688162948
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 44
• Illustrator: Stanley Diane